On 8/18/08, Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce quoted:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders,
On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ok, let's see how Heinleinian I can claim to be :-)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
Ok, ok
butcher a hog,
Never done it.
conn a ship,
I have no idea what's that. But I can pilot a spaceship (did
Bruce quoted:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Richard Baker wrote:
Bruce quoted:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act
Richard Baker asked:
Can anyone non-fictional do all of those things adequately well? I
think it's much better to do a few of them very well and rely on
others to do different subsets and trade skills or goods and so
forth. It seems to me that all the people who've done most to
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Richard Baker asked:
pitch manure,
What's that?
Herbivore poop. Great fertilizer!
Julia
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Julia wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Richard Baker asked:
pitch manure,
What's that?
Herbivore poop. Great fertilizer!
Or shovel sh*t, to be succinct.
Doug
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At 02:02 PM Monday 8/18/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
pitch manure,
What's that?
Required skill for politicians and other bureaucrats.
. . . ronn! :)
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On 16 Aug 2008, at 17:29, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
One of the articles I saw on this mentioned that at least one of the
textbooks in question (the one quoted as saying if (scientific)
conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong)
was published by Bob Jones University.
, August 17, 2008 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Sanity prevails
On 16 Aug 2008, at 17:29, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
One of the articles I saw on this mentioned that at least one of the
textbooks in question (the one quoted as saying if (scientific)
conclusions contradict the Word of God
William T Goodall quoted:
World History and Cultures in Christian Perspective
This well-researched text stands on the conviction that God is the
Creator of the world and the Controller of history.
(...)
and concluded:
These people are mad Maru
And yet, if _we_ are right (i.e., Evolution
On Aug 17, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
And yet, if _we_ are right (i.e., Evolution rulez), then _we_ are mad,
because it seems that believing in nonsense is a reproductive
advantage...
When the belief system itself is a meme which demands conceiving large
a threat to themselves
and everyone around them.
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(08-12) 17:25 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge says the
University of California can deny course credit to applicants from
Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible
and
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Subject: Sanity prevails
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On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Olin Elliott wrote:
(08-12) 17:25 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge says the
University of California can deny course credit to applicants from
Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible
and reject evolution.
Rejecting
Judge rules against 'intelligent design'
excerpts...
HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and
evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a
Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching intelligent
design in biology class,
Gary wrote:
Jones decried the breathtaking inanity of the Dover policy and accused
several board members of lying to conceal their true motive, which he
said was to promote religion.
Thank goodness sanity prevails _sometimes_. Note that Jones is a Bush
appointee, too, not a Michael Moore
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